As the African National Congress elective conference draws closer and the race for the top job intensifies, Lindiwe Sisulu has made no secret of her ambitions.
Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has positioned herself as the battering ram for the RET campaign to unseat President Cyril Ramaphosa and advertised her own presidential ambitions. But multiple sources in Sisulu’s own orbit warn that she is to a worrying extent the victim of her abrasive adviser.
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Swimming against a global tide to ban fracking outright, the government has published new proposals to safeguard South Africa’s declining water resources through “controlled” fracking – while simultaneously leaving the door wide open for oil and gas corporations to blast vast quantities of water underground to extract fossil fuels.
The new plans by Water Affairs Minister Lindiwe Sisulu propose a 5km buffer zone to separate fracking operations from strategic water resources, wells and dams, along with a ban on certain toxic fracking fluids.
Fracking – or hydraulic fracturing – is a water-intensive technology pioneered in the United States and Canada to get access to declining reserves of fossil fuels by injecting a high-pressure cocktail of water, sand and chemicals deep underground to smash apart underground rock formations, raising major concerns about the pollution of surface and underground water supplies – and increasing the likelihood of earth